FAQ: Exasol and MariaDB Strategic Partnership for High-Performance Analytics

What is the main purpose of the partnership between Exasol and MariaDB?

The partnership aims to integrate Exasol’s high-performance analytics engine into MariaDB’s Enterprise Platform to create a joint solution called MariaDB Exa, enabling real-time analytics directly on operational data and expanding market reach for both companies.

Why is this partnership significant for Exasol?

This partnership provides Exasol with direct access to MariaDB’s extensive open-source user base of over one billion downloads, significantly increasing visibility and commercial reach, particularly in the strategically important U.S. market.

What is MariaDB Exa and how does it work?

MariaDB Exa (Powered by Exasol) is a joint solution that integrates the Exasol Analytics Engine into the MariaDB Enterprise Platform, enabling high-performance analytics directly on operational data by combining MariaDB’s transactional database platform with Exasol’s analytics technology.

What performance benefits does MariaDB Exa offer?

MariaDB Exa delivers query results 20 times faster than traditional OLTP databases and is up to 20 times faster than leading cloud competitors, handling extreme scale, complex queries, and multi-terabyte datasets with high performance.

Who are the key executives involved in this partnership?

Joerg Tewes, CEO of Exasol, and Rohit de Souza, CEO of MariaDB plc, are the key executives involved in announcing and explaining the strategic partnership.

When was this partnership announced and when is the solution available?

The partnership was announced on October 22, 2025, and the MariaDB Exa solution is available immediately as an add-on option to the MariaDB Enterprise Platform.

What specific use cases does MariaDB Exa support?

MariaDB Exa supports GenAI performance requirements, real-time dashboards, complex data science workloads, and provides real-time insights from operational to petabyte-scale AI data while maintaining data governance and cost control.

How does this partnership benefit MariaDB customers?

MariaDB customers can now deploy a converged database solution that extracts real-time insights from large operational datasets without the complexity of moving data to separate analytics systems, while getting immediate value from transactional information.

What technology components are involved in the MariaDB Exa solution?

The solution combines the Exasol Analytics Engine with MariaDB Enterprise Platform and MariaDB MaxScale, using a multi-node high availability architecture to deliver high-performance analytics capabilities.